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Co-producing in practice at service design and delivery stages

Co-Production Guide for Northern Ireland – Connecting and Realising Value Through People

From the Department of Health in Northern Ireland: This practical Guide to support the application of a Co-Production approach across our health and social care system was developed as part of the Department’s programme of work to transform health and social care provision as envisaged in “Delivering Together 2026”. Developed using a system wide partnership […]

NLCF report: A Meeting of Minds: how co-production benefits people, professionals and organisations

From the National Lottery Community Fund: We believe that people understand better than anyone else what’s needed in their communities. Co-production, which brings people and stakeholders together to create and deliver services, is one way of doing this. Our latest report, A Meeting of Minds: How co-production benefits people, professionals and organisations, focuses on the practice […]

Can we make policymaking more… fun?

Melanie Rayment writes on the Centre for Public Impact blog. There is a rise in interest around participatory methods for policy making both in forms of deliberative and co-design approaches, while others are calling for a democratisation of futures thinking to enhance our social imagination. Across these methods is a common thread that calls for more accessible and genuinely authentic approaches to […]

Guide to service user involvement

The Centre for Youth & Criminal Justice (CYCJ) and University of Strathclyde have produced a practical guide to service user involvement in community justice that can contribute to service innovation, help recovery and support desistance from offending. It can also be used more generally in contexts requiring service user involvement, and aims to support professionals […]

New conversations 2: LGA Guide to Engagement

As we approach the third decade of the 21st century, public organisations and institutions find themselves in a tricky position. The challenges they face are arguably as hard as they’ve been at any point in post-war history and yet the public has very low trust in Government and other institutions to get the decisions right. There have […]

Paying people who receive benefits – Co-production and participation

This ‘at a glance’ briefing looks at benefit changes that can make it easier for people who use services and carers to get involved in paid co-production/participation in health and social care. The benefit rates quoted are correct at time of publication (January 2019). Permitted Work rates are now revised in April to put them […]

OGP’s Participation and Co-creation Toolkit: from usual suspects to business as usual

The Open Government Partnership aims to bring citizens and government closer in policy-making, so have provided a lot of learnings on how to create opportunities for dialogue and participation since 2011. Their toolkit captures a multitude of these good practices and presents them to encourage further adoption and innovation and help government reformers and civil society […]

Co-creation: ‘What works here doesn’t work there’ (Wildman, J.M. et al., 2019)

The significance of local context for a sustainable and replicable asset‐based community intervention aimed at promoting social interaction in later life Wildman, J.M., Valtorta, N., Moffatt, S. and Hanratty, B. (2019)   What is known about this topic: Asset‐based community approaches are increasingly being used to improve health and well‐being. Asset‐based programmes harness resources within […]

Co-production Project Planner

A free resource focusing on putting ideas into action, from IRISS (Institute for Research and Innovation in Social Services). It comprises: project planning workbook to take you from initial ideas to running co-production workshops guide to planning co-production projects suite of Iriss facilitation tools. Keywords: co-production resource, workbook, planning guide, facilitation tools https://www.iriss.org.uk/resources/tools/co-production-project-planner  

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